My two cents on swap and some questions about the recommended packages...
It is really easy to setup ZRAM in Debian 12 to handle swap duties if you don't want a swap partition for whatever reason, which will prevent edge-case performance problems that could perhaps occur if no swap is present at all. Maybe edit that bullet point to something like:
"Modern systems with enough memory (>= 16GB) can live without a swap partition. ZRAM can be used as an alternative to dedicated disk space. See https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam for installation instructions."
The Debian wiki article throws in an example of editing the default configuration between these two lines, but essentially it is just two commands in a terminal to set it up:
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sudo apt install zram-tools
sudo service zramswap reload
I was curious about this:
"Recommended packages
Install the following packages from the default Debian repositories:
rtirq-init
vlc
a2jmidid
htop
usbutils (when using an USB audio interface)"
I have never installed vlc on a system I have dedicated for audio before. You are talking about the media player whose icon is a traffic cone, right? I am curious why this is recommended.
Is it an easy way to handle multimedia codec installation on Debian? Likewise, I am curious what the package usbutils adds to an audio system. I have used USB audio devices on Linux for years and don't recall ever installing this to get them performing well, but perhaps I am missing out on something that would improve my system?